Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-10-29

tramp ol nofhcItn OUTSIDE TIE paidct wal
some ten hours later raised myself and
asked what was the news, and they told me
that large body of cavalry sent by Curtis
TO assist tho queen, had arrived from the
scene of the battle, which they had left two
hours after shutdown When they left the
wreck Of Sorais' army was In full retreat
upon M'ArStuna, followed by all our effective
cavalry Sir Henry was encamping the re
mains OF his worn out forces on tho site such
Is the fortune OF war; that Sorais had occu
pied the night before, and proposed marching
on to MATtuna on the morrow Having
heard this. felt that could die with light
heart, andahen everything became blank
When next awoke the first thing saw
was the round disk of a sympathetic eye
glass, behind which was Good
"How are you getting on old chap~ said
voice from the neighborhood OF the eye glass
"What are you doing here" asked
family "You ought to be at MArstuna
have you run away or whatso
'MArstunal' he replied, cheerfully "Ah,
MArstuna fell last week-youve been uncon
scious for fortnight you see-with all the
honors of war. you know, trumpets blowing
flags flying just as though they had the best
OF IL, int for all that weren t they glad to gol
Israel made for his tents can tell you
never saw such a sight in my life.r
@And Soraisr asked,
"Sorais-oh, Sorais is prisoner they gave
her up the scoundrels,' he added, with a
change of tone--asaciihced the queen to save
their skins, you see She Is being brought up
here and don't know what will happen TO
her f1oor aoulis ard Ina s,0had
'Where Is Curtislo | asked.
HE is with Nyleptha She rode out TO
meet us today and there was grand TO do
can tell you. He is coming to see you to.mor.
row, the doctors for there IL a medical fac
ultys i'll zu Vendis as elsewhercj thought that
he had better not come today
sold nothing, but somehow thought to
myself that notwithstanding the doctors he
might have given me a look, but then, when
a man is newly married, and has just gained
a great victory, he is apt 10 listen TO the adj
vice Of doctors, and quite right too
Just then heard familiar voice informing
me that "Monsieur must now couch himself, ?
and looking up perceived Alphonse's enor
nous black mustaches curling away In the
distance.
$50 you are herep said.
"Mais oui, monsieur, the war is now fin.
ished, my military instincts are satisfied, and
return to nurse monsieur
laughed. or rather tried to but whatever
may have been Alphonse's failings as a war.
rior land fear that he did not come up to the
level of bis heroic grandfather in this partic-
ular showing thereby how true Is the saying
that 1t is a bad thing to be overshadowed by
some great ancestral namel, better or a
kinder nurse never lived Poor Alphonse
hope he win always thihk OF me as kindly as
| think of him.
On the morrow l saw Curtis and Nyleptha
with him, and he told me the whole history
Of what had happened since Umslopogaas
and galloped wildly away from the battle
to save the life OF the queen. 1t seemed to
me that he had managed the thing exceeding.
~ well, and showed great ability as general.
or course, however, our loss had been dread.
fully heavy-indeed, am afraid to say how
many persisted in the desperate battle have
described. but know that the slaughter has
| appreciably affected the male population OF
the country He was very pleased to see me
dear fellow that he is, and thanked me with
tears in his eyes for the little had been abb
to do l saw him, however, start violently
when his eyes fell upon my face
| As for Nyleptha, she was positively radiar
now that "her dear lord" had come back with
no other injury than an ugly scar on III;
| forehead.
4And what art thou going to do Aitt
| 'Goraisp asked her.
Instantly her bright brow darkened to Q
frown.
"5orais," she said, with little stamp of the
fGJt, "ah, but Soraisl"
Sir Henry fastened to tura the subject.
"You will soon beiabout and all right agar
low, old fellow" he said.
/ shook my head and laughed
"Don't deceive yourselves l said. II may
be about for little, but l shall never be al
right again. l am dying man, Curtis.
may die slow, but die must Do you know
have been splitting blood all the morning
| tell you there is something working away
into my lung; | can feel it. There, don't lool
distressed, have had my day, and am ready
to go. Giveme the mirror, viii youl wan
to look at myself"
He made some excuse, but saw through Il
and insisted, and at last he handed me one 81
the disks Of polished silver, set in wooder
frame like hand screen. which serve a.
looking glasses in Zu-Vendis. looked anG
put it down.
"Ail,' said quietly Il thought so, and you
talk of my getting all right" / did not lik,
to let them see how shocked really was al
my own appearance. My grizzled stubby
hair was turned snow white, and my yellow
face was shrunk like an aged womans ant
had two deep purple rings painted beneath
the eyes.
Here Nyleptha began to cry. and Sir Henry
again turned the subject, telling Inc that til,
artists had taken a cast of the dead body Of
old Umslopogaas, and that great statue IN
black marble was to be erected OF him In th,
act of splitting the sacred stone, which wa
to be matched by another statue in whit.
marble of myself and the horse Daylight al
he appeared when, at the termination Of thai
wild ride, he sank beneath me in the cour
yard of the palace. have since seen thes'
statues, which, at the time Of writing this
six months after the batrle, are nearly
finished; and very beautiful they are especi
ally that Of Umslopogaas, which is exactly
like him. As for that Of myself. 1t Is good
but they have idealized my ugly face little
which is perhaps as well. seeing that thou
sands Of people will probably look at in th'
centuries to come, and 1t Is not pleasant Il
look at ugly things
Then they told me that Umslopogaas las
wish had been carried out, and that insteat